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Nigella website is cooked by hackers
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:47:14 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/07/17/231527/nigella-website-is-cooked-by-hackers.htm ComputerWeekly.com 17 July 2008 Celebrity cook Nigella Lawson has had her website hacked by the increasingly dangerous SQL injection attacks. An attacker has used a Structured Query Language (SQL) attack to add code to her website. This code then links Nigella website users to malware hosted on another website. The attack has been created using the Asprox toolkit, widely distributed by hackers. Researchers from security software firm ScanSafe first detected the attack on 14 July. Anyone who has visited the Nigella site could potentially have an infected computer, said ScanSafe. [...] _______________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA, August 2-7 in Las Vegas, the world's premier technical event for ICT security experts. Featuring 40 hands-on training courses and 80 Briefings presentations with lots of new content and new tools. Network with 4,000 delegates from 50 nations. Visit product displays by 30 top sponsors in a relaxed setting. http://www.blackhat.com
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